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Encounter was launched with a mission to offer a safe space to encounter the transcendent God in the midst of the noise of our daily routines.
It is a daily podcast of sacred and mindful meditations to help you encounter the divine presence of God throughout your day.
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Find Me Faithful
July 02, 2024 05:00 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBProverbs 21:2 The theme of this meditation is being found faithful as you live and move by faith. Does Encounter help you grow in your relationship with the Lord? Please consider giving! What step of faith do you need to take today?
Entering A New Land
July 01, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBDeuteronomy 30:16 The theme of this meditation is about exploration and how to face it with divine peace and the courage of God. Does Encounter encourage you to have the courage of God? Please consider giving to us! Do adventures excite you or give you anxiety?
"Actual Results May Vary"
June 30, 2024 05:00 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBLuke 16:10 In today's meditation, we'll talk about skipping shortcuts and being faithful in order to see actual results. Does Encounter help you increase your patience? Please consider giving! Is there an area of your life where you need extra patience today?
Slow To Speak
June 29, 2024 05:00 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBJames 1:19 The theme of this meditation from James 1 is being slower to speak and faster to listen to others, including your time listening in prayer. Does Encounter help you to be a better listener? Please consider giving! On an average day, how much talking do you do? How much listening?
Walking Like Christ
June 28, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBColossians 2:6 Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. The theme of this meditation from Colossians 2 is imitation-- doing as others do, acting as they act, and walking as they walk. Does Encounter help you become more Christ-like? Please consider giving! Who are you imitating?
Warning: Contents Under Pressure
June 27, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes - 16 MBActs 2:21 The theme of this meditation is to notice and mind warnings-- especially the most important spiritual warnings of God. Does Encounter encourage you to live the life God intends for you? Please consider supporting us. Are there spiritual warnings you need to listen to today?
Have Confidence In The Lord
June 26, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes - 16 MBJeremiah 17:10 The theme of this meditation is confidence. Having confidence, not in yourself, but in God because of what he has done for you before. Are you enjoying Encounter? Please consider donating. How might God use you to help another rely more deeply on the Lord?
Seeking By Faith
June 25, 2024 05:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBHebrews 11:6 This meditation from Hebrews 11 is about faith-- not the mustering up of new faith, but discovering the courage you seek is already within you. Faith is a gift from God. Does Encounter encourage you in your relationship with Christ? Please consider giving! Is there a time when doubt has blocked you from experiencing trust?
The Indwelling Of Joy
June 24, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes - 17 MBHabakkuk 3:17-18 This meditation from Habakkuk 3 is about remembering to be joyful, especially in the face of personal disappointment. I pray it brings you peace in your times of discontent. Does Encounter help you experience peace? Please consider giving! Can you remember a time when you experienced joy despite disappointment?
How Do You Show Love?
June 23, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes - 16 MB1 John 3:18 This meditation is a reflection on love languages. We'll contemplate how we receive love, and how we share it with others. Does Encounter help you show love? Please consider giving. How do you show love? How do you share the love with others?
The Uncertainties Of Life
June 22, 2024 05:00 - 16 minutes - 15 MBEcclesiastes 11:5 Our theme for this meditation from Ecclesiastes 11 is uncertainty. It is my hope that this will help you find hope in the midst of chaos and doubt. Does Encounter help you find hope? Please consider giving! How has God shown up for you in uncertain times?
An Offer Of Peace
June 21, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MB2 Corinthians 5:21 This meditation is designed to combat the stress of the world by becoming a calm place of hope in the presence of God and a reminder of His offer of peace. Does Encounter help you accept an offer of peace? Please consider giving! How big of a role does stress play in your daily life?
Heavenly Riches
June 20, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBProverbs 22:4 Our theme for this meditation from Proverbs 22 is wealth--not in dollar signs and decimals as defined by the world, but the eternal and divine wealth of heaven. Does Encounter remind you of your true worth and value? Please consider giving! What do you value most in life?
Dealing With Depression
June 19, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes - 40.1 MBPsalm 42:11 The Bible has much to say about depression. It can be hard to seek God as your help when you're experiencing depression, but by choosing to be here, you are taking an important first step. Does Encounter help you find hope in hard times? Please consider supporting us. Where are you emotionally right now?
Confident In Love
June 18, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MB1 John 4:18 The theme of this meditation from 1 John 4 is about love and how to be confident standing on the love of God when facing eternity. Does Encounter help you experience the love of God? Please consider giving! Describe your experience with God's perfect love.
God's Powerful Word
June 17, 2024 05:00 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBHebrews 4:12 This meditation will help you appreciate the manual you seek is in your hands and heart through God's Word. Does Encounter help you spend time with the Lord? Please consider giving! How might God use you to help another find salvation?
Prayer For Help And Guidance
June 16, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBPsalm 143:10 This meditation will help you surrender in a new way: into the hands of God. Does Encounter help you find comfort? Please consider giving! Is there an area of your life where you need to surrender?
God Of The Impossible
June 15, 2024 05:00 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBMatthew 19:26 This meditation will help you embrace the truth of your frailty and surrender to the strength of God. Does Encounter help you surrender to the strength of God? Please consider supporting us. What challenges do you need to surrender to God?
Old Things In New Light
June 14, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes - 16.5 MBIsaiah 43:19 This meditation from Isaiah 43 will help you see with new eyes, encounter God in new ways, and experience His ongoing transformative work already well underway in your life right now. Does Encounter help you experience God in new ways? Please consider giving! How is God transforming your life right now?
Patient To Completion
June 13, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes - 16 MBPhilippians 1:6 This meditation will help you find a space to encounter the assurance and patient working of God to restore and complete you. Are you enjoying Encounter? Please consider donating. What about you feels most restored and complete?
Persistent Awe And Wonder
June 12, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBPsalm 2:11 This meditation is a reflection on approaching Elohim, the creator God, with the patient awe and wonder befitting Him, with a sense of adoration, embracing, celebrating, and even a bit of trembling. Does Encounter help you spend time with the Lord? Please consider giving! What emotions do you feel when you approach the throne of God?
Grant Me Patience
June 11, 2024 05:00 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MB2 Peter 3:9 This meditation from 2 Peter 3 is a reflection on patience, learning to wait on God by considering your own inadequacy while at the same time embracing the Lord’s all-sufficiency. Does Encounter help you wait on the Lord? Please consider giving! Can you remember a time when God provided while you waited on Him?
Shine Among Them Like Stars
June 10, 2024 05:00 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBPhilippians 2:12 This meditation from Philippians 2 is a reflection on the shining that comes from the indwelling of the Spirit of God within you so that others can see God's love in you. Does Encounter help you experience God's love? Please consider giving! When have you seen God's light shine out from someone else?
Dwell With God
June 09, 2024 05:00 - 16 minutes - 38.8 MBColossians 3:16 I pray this meditation will help you empty yourself of the false hope the world offers and be filled with the shining presence of the divine. Does Encounter help you find true hope? Please consider supporting us. What false hope do you need to release today?
You Are Here With Us
June 08, 2024 05:00 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBMatthew 18:20 This meditation is about the presence of God being particularly near when His people gather to meditate on repentance. Does Encounter help you experience the presence of God? Please consider giving! How often do you gather together with others?
Sharing Burdens
June 07, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBGalatians 6:2 This meditation from Galatians 6 is about exploring ways to share the burdens of others and finding others to help carry some of yours. Does Encounter help you release your burdens? Please consider giving! What (and whose) burdens are you carrying today?
Loving Others
June 06, 2024 05:00 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBGalatians 5:14 This meditation from Galatians 5 is about having the freedom to love beyond yourself, loving everyone as God does, and treating everyone you meet as though they are the only one in your care. Does Encounter help you love others? Please consider giving! Who needs your undivided attention and love today?
"I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up"
June 05, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBEcclesiastes 4:9-10 This meditation from Ecclesiastes 4 will help you center on the importance of having others in your life who can be a source of help, strength, warmth, and protection in times of need. Does Encounter help you find strength? Please consider giving! Which friends are a source of strength?
In God's Image
June 04, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBGenesis 1:27 This meditation is a reflection on the truth that God created each of us in his own likeness. He created us to be like Himself-- each of us created as unique gifts to the world for His glory. Does Encounter help you glorify God? Please consider giving! How do others see God in you?
Enduring Joy
June 03, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes - 16.5 MBJames 1:17 This meditation is a reflection on your longing for enduring joy. Empty yourself of the false hope the world offers and be filled with the joy and presence of God-- the only thing that endures! Does Encounter help you find joy? Please consider giving to us! What false hopes have you been clinging to lately?
Come Follow Jesus
June 02, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBMatthew 16:24 This meditation from Matthew 16 is a reflection on the longing to abandon everything to come and follow Jesus, becoming filled with who you truly are-- a disciple and follower of Christ. Does Encounter help you follow Jesus? Please consider giving! What are some attributes of your true self?
If You Have Ears, Listen
June 01, 2024 05:00 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBMatthew 11:15 This meditation from Matthew 11 is about listening. It will help you hear the reverberations of God’s creation and listen for the substance and significance of what you hear. Does Encounter help you find peace? Please consider giving! What sounds of creation do you hear right now?
Hoping In The Lord
May 31, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBPsalm 130:5 This meditation will help you be aware and hopeful as you wait. In the midst of the distracting ticking, tapping, and waiting, you'll be reminded to stay hope-filled for the One you are waiting on. Does Encounter bring you hope? Please consider giving! What are you hopeful for today?
God’s Freedom
May 30, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MB2 Corinthians 3:17 This meditation from 2 Corinthians 3 will help you take a walk. Unbridled. Free. Being guided, not by the world but only by God’s whispered directions. Does Encounter help you feel free? Please consider giving to us! When did you last experience the feeling of freedom?
Do You Need Wisdom?
May 29, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes - 42.8 MBJames 1:5 This meditation from James 1 will help you remember that when we lack the wisdom to simply ask, God provides generously, liberally, and without reproach. Does Encounter help you find peace? Please consider giving! In what area of your life do you need God's wisdom today?
The Gift Of A New Heart
May 28, 2024 05:00 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBEzekiel 36:26 This meditation is a reflection on transformation-- receiving the gift of a heart transformed from self-willed stone to God-willed tenderness. Does Encounter help you find restoration? Please consider supporting us. What of you is old and in need of restoration?
Turning To What Is Good
May 27, 2024 05:00 - 19 minutes - 18 MB1 Thessalonians 5:15 This meditation from 1 Thessalonians 5 is a contemplation on doing good. Turn away from complacency and choose to do good. Does Encounter guide you to what is good? Please consider giving to us! What decision can you make today that will lead you away from complacency?
Being Called A Fool
May 26, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MB1 Corinthians 1:18 This meditation from 1 Corinthians 1 is a reflection on believing in the healing, restorative ways of God’s saving power, no matter what others think. Does Encounter help you deepen your faith? Please consider giving! How do you respond when others question or mock your beliefs?
Godly Restoration
May 25, 2024 05:00 - 19 minutes - 17.4 MB2 Chronicles 7:14 This meditation from 2 Chronicles 7 is a reflection on restoration. You may feel isolated and forgotten by God but there is hope in the promise of forgiveness and God’s divine restoration. Does Encounter help you encounter Christ? Please consider giving! Is there a part of you in need of cleaning and repair?
New Love
May 24, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBLuke 6:35 This meditation from Luke 6 is a reflection on a new kind of love-- one in which you care for others regardless of how or whether they care for you. Does Encounter help you love others? Please consider giving! How can you love your enemies with a new love?
Live As He Lives
May 23, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes - 16 MB1 John 2:6 This meditation from 1 John 2 is a reflection on living your life, not using the world as a model, but living your life as Jesus lives His so you can lead a life marked by love, humility, and caring for others. Does Encounter help you find peace? Please consider giving! How might God use you to reveal Christ to someone else today?
Walk By His Commandments
May 22, 2024 05:00 - 20 minutes - 18.3 MB2 John 1:6 I pray this meditation from 2 John 6 will help you steer away from the counsel of the ungodly and delight in the law of the Lord as you walk by His commandments. Does Encounter steer you toward the wisdom of the Lord? Please consider giving! Where do you turn when you need answers?
Praying In Power
May 21, 2024 05:00 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBJude 1:20 I pray this meditation will help you experience the presence of the Holy Spirit, being baptized in the pneuma, the Holy Spirit, the very breath of God. Does Encounter help you grow in your faith? Please consider giving! Is your faith based on doctrine or experience?
Mindful Of The Moment
May 20, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBPsalm 90:12 This guided audio meditation from Psalm 90 is a reflection on helping other fellow travelers on the road, making the path brighter and easier as we journey on. Do you enjoy Encounter? Please consider donating. Thank you! How can you make the path easier for fellow travelers?
Producing Good Fruit
May 19, 2024 05:00 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBMatthew 7:17-20 This meditation from Matthew 7 is a reflection on the outcome of what we plant, realizing that no matter our hopes, dreams, and best-laid plans, what we sow is what we will harvest. Does Encounter help you sow the right things? Please consider giving! What type of fruit does your life produce?
New Creation
May 18, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes - 17 MB2 Corinthians 5:17 This meditation from 2 Corinthians 5 is a reflection on becoming a new creation, inspired by the very mind of God and far more beautiful than anything human hands could even imagine creating. Does Encounter help you discover your identity in Christ? Please consider giving! Where are you in the process of becoming new?
New Desires
May 17, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MB1 John 4:15 During this guided audio mediation on 1 John 4, we'll focus on setting aside our selfish desires to allow God to fill our minds, direct our wills, and transform our affections into those of Christ. Does Encounter help you abide in the Lord? Please consider giving! What sacrifices might you make to align with the affections of the Lord?
What Are You Missing?
May 16, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MB2 Corinthians 12:9 Our theme for this meditation is having all you need. Not wasting your life by finishing tasks yourself, but by God’s grace, having immediate access to all He has and all He is. Help us transform lives with God's peace. Please support us. What do you most want out of life? How is God providing?
Come Closer To God
May 15, 2024 05:00 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBJames 4:8 This meditation will encourage your desire to come near to our Creator. Submitting to the arms of God, humbling ourselves in his presence, and kneeling as we look up into the loving eyes of God. Are you enjoying Encounter? Please consider donating. When last did you spend time in God's presence without asking for anything?
Living By Faith
May 14, 2024 05:00 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBRomans 1:16 This meditation will help you live by faith with the trust and courage to share the love of Christ. Does Encounter prepare you to share your faith? Please consider supporting us. Have you ever missed a moment to share Jesus? What happened?